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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2016/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1037",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional provision in respect of illegal working closure notices",
  "text": "Where a person is at large in the United Kingdom by virtue of paragraph 21(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act (temporary admission or release from detention)—\n(a) the person is to be treated for the purposes of paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 6 to the 2016 Act as if the person had been granted leave to enter the United Kingdom, but\n(b) any restriction as to employment imposed under paragraph 21(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act is to be treated as a condition of leave.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1037/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:45.483535+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}